The Australian Human Rights Commission is calling for the Same-Sex Marriage bill to be renamed to include people who don't identify as male or female.

AHRC president Gillian Triggs wants it changed to the Definition of Marriage bill, according to The Daily Telegraph.

'The draft title of the Act unnecessarily and inaccurately excludes couples which are neither ''the union of a man and a woman'' nor ''same sex'',' the agency told a Senate ­inquiry into the bill, the paper reported.

Australian Human Rights Commission president Gillian Triggs is calling for the Same-Sex Marriage bill to be renamed to the Definition of Marriage bill

AHRC want the act renamed because it discriminates against people who don't identify as a man or a woman

'The proposed amendments to the Marriage Act would enable two people to marry irrespective of their sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or intersex status.

'This would also include couples in which one or both parties have something other than ''male'' or ''female'' recorded on their birth certificate.'

Human Rights Commissioner Edward Santow recently expressed similar views, saying the bill should recognise unions between two people regardless of their sex or gender identity.

The AHRC told a Senate ­inquiry into the bill: 'The proposed amendments to the Marriage Act would enable two people to marry irrespective of their sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or intersex status'

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'At the same time, the rights of everyone affected by this change must be respected – especially people of faith,' Commissioner Santow said at a public hearing into the Exposure Draft of the Marriage Amendment.

Debate on gay marriage in Australia has gone on for well over a decade and Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull hoped to resolve the issue via a plebiscite on February 11.

But in November, the federal government's proposed plebiscite was knocked back in the Senate.

Debate on gay marriage in Australia has gone on for more than a decade. Above, equal marriage rights supporters march in a rally in Sydney last year

Labor said a plebiscite of 15million voters would be expensive and divisive, and also potentially harmful to those in same-sex relationships and their families.

Despite strong popular support for marriage equality, Australia is seen as lagging behind other nations which allow homosexual couples the right to wed.

Same-sex couples can have civil unions or register their relationships in most Australian states, but the government does not consider them married under national law.

In November, the federal government's proposed same-sex marriage plebiscite was knocked back in the Senate